Chung

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Peak · boys
1982 · 17 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
198
since 1942

Chung over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank197019801990200020102020peak #2,709, 1982girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 5 boys in 1942 (see the data table).

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1996—#9,0155
1995—#6,9927
1994—#6,9687
1993—#6,2288
1992—#7,4226
1991—#7,2716
1990—#5,8238
1989—#5,6158
1988—#3,91512
1987#9,8256#6,0896
1986—#4,4579
1985—#5,1477
1984—#3,45912
1983—#4,1419
1982—#2,70917
1981—#3,22113
1980—#3,61511
1979#10,2105#4,8427
1978—#3,61410
1977—#3,60610
1976—#5,5875
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First appearance
1942

The first year at least five boys were named Chung! It came in at #3,560, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1942–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Chung is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Chung in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Chung
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1996
Rise & fade · boys
40 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1942
  • Peaked 1982 at #2,709 (17 births)
  • Births halved by 1985, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 106,732
  • Highest: 1 in 106,732 boys born in 1982 were named Chung (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 378,860 boys born in 1996 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 52.5% of all boys named Chung (104) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1988
  • Mostly girls until 1987, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s5#3,560 (1942)#3,560
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1970s42#3,606 (1977)#4,631
1980s104#2,709 (1982)#4,237
1990s47#5,823 (1990)#7,103

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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